Double Drabble: After the Storm

[unfeathered]

Title: After the Storm
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Pairing: Jack/Tenth Doctor
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: Last of the Time Lords
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack and the Doctor take comfort in each other
Beta: Unbeta'd
Author’s Note: seti_drd asked for hurt/comfort.



After the clean-up, they sleep. At least, Jack sleeps, too exhausted to resist it any longer. The Doctor's arms curl protectively round him as Jack dreams restlessly, as he whispers the pleas and screams the screams he wouldn't whisper and scream in front of the Master. The Doctor flinches when he hears the Master's name, whimpered piteously in frantic entreaty, as Jack's body tenses and flails. His arms tighten around him, his fingers stroke Jack's hair, and he murmurs soothingly into Jack's ear until in time he calms and slips into deeper sleep.

Much, much later, the Doctor finally succumbs to sleep. Jack in his turn is roused by the Doctor twitching and moaning, words he doesn't understand, one word repeated over and over: Koschei, Koschei, Koschei. Jack's never heard the word before, but he can guess what it means. He holds the Doctor tight till the fury of his grief ebbs and he's just weeping, silently, for the man he knew, and loved, and lost. Then Jack kisses him, gentle and understanding and undemanding, until the Doctor responds, and they make love together, softly, slowly, in the dark, one of them aching to remember, one of them to forget.

Comments

[unfeathered]

Oh well, glad I could help a bit with that, at least. :-)

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Helped a lot, just doing nothing not my thing :)

So if you ever find a plot bunny to turn this into something bigger... hee ^^

[unfeathered]

Hmm, I'm not sure this is the sort of thing that should be expanded, though I'm sure there'll be more on a similar theme. I mean, I've already had Constant and Drowning Sorrows dealign with the aftermath of the Year of Hell. And the more I write older!Jack, the more I'll probably think about it. :-)

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I'm not really picky, I love everything you write :)

[unfeathered]

That... has completely thrown me. I have no idea what to say to that!

Except thank you! and yay! and wow! and thank you! again. :-)

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

... I'm still rubbish at commenting, don't I? ^^

[unfeathered]

No!!!! That was about the most fantastic comment it's possible to get!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I meant because you seemed so surprised by my statement... maybe I should squee more...

[unfeathered]

No, I'm always surprised when someone says that. Even every time the same person says it. It's just too wonderful to keep believing, iyswim. :-)

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Know the feeling, yes :)